sebb wrote: > On 23/11/2009, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> wrote: > >> On Nov 23, 2009, at 5:49 PM, sebb wrote: >> >> >> >>> There is only a "bz2" archive. >>> Normally projects release archives in zip andr tar.gz format which are >>> more commonly supported. >>> >>> IMO, this is a release blocker >>> >>> >> Just curious why you think this is a blocker? Each project knows better >> what formats are common and acceptable in the target user community. There's >> no single distribution format and this is not a blocker IMO. >> > > The project OS targets include Windows, which does not support BZ2 > natively by default, whereas Windows does now support Zip archives. >
Most people on Windows will prefer to use an installer provided by someone else, anyway. The "someone else" is likely to have 7-zip or some other free archiver that does support bzip2 installed. > AFAIK, all other ASF releases use both tar.gz and zip archives. > I'm going to barge in again, but this is like requiring every Apache project from now on to be written in Java, "because Windows usually has a JRE but not a C compiler installed." Next you'll be mandating coding standards. Isn't this just a /little/ bit over the line of sensible requirements? -- Brane --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
